The phrase "a traditional type" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific category or classification that is established and recognized within a particular context or culture.
Example: "The festival features a traditional type of dance that has been performed for generations."
Alternatives: "a classic form" or "a conventional kind".
But inside she is a traditional type.
All the more frustrating and disappointing, therefore, that Hill should have chosen such a traditional type of crime novel (serial killer, police procedural) to extend her range.
The Vicolo Santa Lucia offers a traditional type of cooking from the area - it is on the Adriatic coast near Rimini - with an oriental twist.
A commercial is planned that is "more of a traditional type of ad," said Jess Bunn, a spokesman for FedEx in Memphis, that will be "funny, but not as edgy as we've been in the past".
"A home of a traditional type becomes a hazard zone as you get older," said Dr. David Brown, 87, a board member instrumental in developing town services for the elderly.
This cue may have come from Borges, father of the sub-genre, who made no apology for writing tales that were closer to thought experiments than to stories of a traditional type.
As the 75-year-old Driver explained to me, without irony, Roth is "an old, traditional type," a stickler for a sound that Driver and his peers would just as well leave in the past with their Afros and bell-bottoms.
For the past week, the Giants had practiced a blueprint for a very traditional type of victory over the Dallas Cowboys.
I don't know if either of Helen Fielding's books specifically mentions Bridget Jones in unflattering cartoon pyjamas but our anti-heroine was definitely down with a more traditional type of sleepwear and also favoured slobbing around in a nightie worn with socks.
MCPHS also offers a combined BS/MD program for students who want to focus on a more traditional type of medical curriculum.
But as the 1980s went on, Read seemed to become more the leading Catholic spokesman – of a very traditional type – who wrote books, rather than the leading novelist who happened to be Catholic.
